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00:00May God himself, the God of peace, make you perfectly holy and keep you holy.
00:12spirit, soul, and body without any defect for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, who
00:22He calls them faithful and will fulfill all this; the so-called querygmatic letters are the first and the second
00:31Letter to the Thessalonians, and they receive this name because in them Paul gathers the elements
00:37The most important aspects of the announcement of Jesus Christ as Lord, which Paul proclaims and invites us to imitate, are
00:45The Christ of history, the resurrected Lord, but also the one who will come around the year
00:5250 is where we place the writing of these letters and at this moment in the history of the people of God
00:59The prevailing idea was that the Lord was near, that his return was imminent; they awaited it.
01:07The coming in glory of our Lord meant they were living in a time of waiting, typical of a
01:14community of believers who remain ready and watchful for the coming of the Lord to whom
01:21They celebrate and follow his teachings, that's why the apostle tells them we shouldn't sleep like the others, but
01:30to stay awake and in our right mind, first letter to the Thessalonians, the first letter
01:40The Thessalonians, as we already mentioned, is the oldest of Paul's letters and is addressed to the same person.
01:47The oldest writing in the New Testament, probably Paul founded Thessalonica in his second time.
01:56missionary journey after founding it in Philippi then visited other cities until reaching Corinth in
02:04where he speaks of his desire to return to Thessalonica to continue his apostolic work, but for some reason
02:12Since he couldn't do it from Athens, he sent Timothy, his collaborator, to encourage him.
02:21Timothy returned to the Christians of Thessalonica when Paul was already in Corinth and brought them good news.
02:29Upon hearing news about the situation of the church, Paul decided to write them this letter because of the
02:37at the moment he was not in a condition to go and visit them
02:41Thessaloniki was a city in Macedonia, capital of one of the four districts of the Roman province
02:53of the same name and which was linked to Rome by means of the Via Ignatia, the importance of this
03:01The city owed its importance to its position in the Axios valley, which opens a route between the Mediterranean and the Danube.
03:09In Paul's time, that was where the Roman governor had his headquarters, so we can imagine the
03:18The importance of this city to the empire was due to the presence of a community in this city.
03:25Jewish communities that operated with a degree of autonomy from the government were allowed to have their own synagogue and practice their own worship.
03:34proper school and court according to the text of Acts 17 verses 1 and 2 Paul begins the announcement of
03:44The gospel was delivered precisely in the synagogue, as was the custom of Paul.
03:52essential in places where the gospel had not been preached, not only because of conviction
03:58that the priority of salvation belonged to the people of Israel in regard to their stay in this
04:05Paul had to stay in the city for a minimum of half a year precisely because of the work of evangelization
04:13Building a city with these characteristics doesn't happen in a week or a month; I had to
04:21He had to proclaim the gospel and instruct the converts about the new lifestyle that
04:28It represented the Christian profession also in the text of 1 Thessalonians chapter 2 verse 9
04:35There is a detail that requires that Paul stayed some time in Thessalonica; it says that he set to work
04:43Therefore, if his stay had lasted only a few weeks, he would not have worked to support himself.
04:51needs and less those who accompanied her on this mission let's read this text
04:57Brothers, do you remember how we worked and struggled to earn a living? We worked day and night.
05:10so as not to be a burden to any of you while we proclaimed to you the gospel of God
05:18According to what Luke tells us in the book of Acts, Paul worked manually making tents for
05:29To earn his daily bread, the apostle did not make it his custom to be a burden to the community where he was.
05:36but rather, through his manual labor he became a testament to faith and industriousness
05:44Thus, he not only dedicated himself to the tasks inherent in his mission, that of evangelizing the pagans
05:51Pablo could have allowed the community at the time to provide for his needs and it would have been
05:58It was lawful for him to act that way, after all, the gospel grants every worker the right to
06:06a payment for the work done, however the apostle along with his companions decided never to be
06:15a burden for no one, teaching us the great value of work and its use as a means of
06:23sanctification, a more than evident example, Paul had to overcome on the one hand his multiple duties as
06:31apostle of Christ and on the other hand the time he should dedicate to being an example of work for these communities
06:39Christians who believed the Lord's arrival was imminent and for which reason they even stopped working, that's why
06:48The apostle rebukes the Thessalonians who act in this way: "When we were with you, we gave you this rule."
06:56Those who don't want to work shouldn't eat either, but we have learned that some of you are behaving in a certain way.
07:04undisciplined, very busy doing nothing, we send and entrust such people with the
07:13authority of the Lord Jesus Christ that they work quietly to earn a living according to the
07:20Author Sánchez Bosch: Shortly after Paul's departure, the Christians of Thessalonica were subjected
07:27of a persecution provoked by their own nationals similar to that which they had suffered
07:34Paul, from Athens, sends the Christians of Judea his most trusted man, Timothy, when
07:43This one returns, the apostle sends them a letter, the first of those we possess, on topics such as those that have
07:50The deaths were a concern for the community; Pablo says they shouldn't be saddened by them.
07:58since those who survive will have no privileges over those who died previously
08:04who will resurrect first; the direct question about when the Parousia will be is raised in chapter
08:125 of verses 1-11 the answer is no we cannot know apart from that concern that
08:21The theme of the paruching represents a new element and is repeated throughout the letter.
08:27There is no doubt about the literary genre of 1 Thessalonians; at first glance, it is epistolary.
08:39The letter, addressed to the church in Thessaloniki, begins with a lengthy greeting and
08:46It ends with farewell greetings framed in blessings, as is typical of every letter.
08:53The letter begins in chapter 1, verses 1 through 10, with an introduction in which it is stated
08:59Find the customary greeting in which Paul also mentions his collaborators Silvanus and
09:06Timothy is immediately followed by a thanksgiving to God for the Christian life of the Thessalonian community.
09:13The central part of the letter is divided into two sections: first, chapter 2, verse 1 to
09:23Chapter 3, verse 13: Paul's work in Thessalonica. In this part, Paul recalls how they
09:31He preached the gospel and, seeing how they accepted it, he let them know of his desire to visit them again and
09:37He communicates the joy he felt upon learning from Timothy about the good situation of the community.
09:45This part with a prayer to God; the second section goes from chapter 4 verse 1 to chapter 5 verse
09:5524 This is a series of exhortations to put into practice the demands of the gospel, placing special emphasis on
10:03the focus on giving instruction about what will become of those Christians who have already died and about
10:10The attitude they should have while waiting for the Lord's return; within this section we find a text
10:17which tells us about God's will for us; what God wants is for you to carry a
10:26Holy life, that simple, although at the same time difficult to live, that's why Paul continues with
10:35a series of specifications regarding the will of God and goes on to list those attitudes of which
10:42They must flee, and as good Christians they must obviously reject these exhortations.
10:50particular situations of the community and of the time, however, it would be good if we thought
10:56Today, we, the people of God, are asked by the Lord to distance ourselves in order to carry out...
11:05a holy life that is necessary to avoid dishonesty, sexual impurity, and passions
11:13Unbridled passions and laziness are necessary, as the apostle says later, to combat these weaknesses.
11:22human beings living the greatest of Christian virtues, love of neighbor, when we have love
11:30When there is mutual love among brothers in the community, there is no room for actions.
11:38Immoral love does not push one to put the other as my priority and therefore the ethics of love
11:46becomes the guarantor of a harmonious community that lives holiness by bearing witness to the commandment of
11:53God to love one another. The letter ends in chapter 5, verses 25-28, with a brief
12:03farewell
12:04Regarding the date and place of composition of 1 Thessalonians, we will say that although Paul
12:16He was in Athens at the time he sent Timothy; the place where the letter was written was...
12:22He usually cites Corinth, that is, the immediately subsequent stage in the normal hypothesis.
12:31We place it in the time of the proconsul of the galleon in Achaea or at a slightly earlier time, that is to say between
12:38the years 50 and 52 AD
12:42Second Letter to the Thessalonians
12:47The second letter of the correspondence to the Thessalonians presents many parallels with the
12:54first, but it develops the theme of the return of the Lord much more extensively, in fact, among the
13:02Paul's letters, the second letter of Thessalonians, is undoubtedly the most apocalyptic, both in the sense of
13:10to emphasize divine punishments, as in announcing a series of events that some reader
13:17I would attribute this apocalyptic content of the letter to a very unrestrained imagination.
13:25many scholars believe that this did not come from Paul's pen, having been written only a little later
13:33The first letter apparently provoked an ill-advised enthusiasm in some believers, and that already
13:40We mentioned earlier that if the gentleman is coming, it is no longer necessary to work, which caused inside
13:47If disorder arose within the church, Paul took it upon himself to set things right, whatever the circumstances.
13:54Before the time of the Lord's coming, one must first go through the test, and this undoubtedly manifested itself.
14:01in the persecution that the young community was subjected to, but something worse is yet to come.
14:08The Antichrist will appear, and only then will Christ return, according to the apostle.
14:16It is important that order be restored to the church, although it is true that Christians are oriented
14:22A future life also means that they must live in the present, doing what they must do each day.
14:30Preparing for a glorious tomorrow is a task that belongs to the Holy Spirit.
14:37The letter begins in chapter 1, verses 1-12, with an introduction that includes a greeting and the
14:51thanksgiving and petition of the apostle for the community of Thessalonica in the central part of the chapter
14:59Chapter 2, verse 1 to chapter 3, verse 15, first addresses the topic of the Lord's return, then follows
15:08It teaches what attitudes Christians should have; prayers are requested for Paul and his
15:15collaborators and finally the community is put on guard against some who lead a life
15:22undisciplined and idle ends in chapter 3, verses 16-18 with a brief
15:30Pablo's farewell letter proposes a topic that was very necessary in those difficult times of
15:38persecution, as well as the need for it, remains important today for God's people.
15:45Pray for one another. The apostle tells them the following: Finally, brothers, pray for us so that
15:56May the Lord's message reach all places soon and be received with appreciation, as happened
16:05Pray also among yourselves that we may be delivered from wicked and evil men, for not everyone has
16:14that we may be delivered from evil men and you believe, but they have not come to you with the
16:18husband also to all of us and be delivered from the disease of evil men and
16:21the other stars that have nothing to do with us, not even a little bit more
16:23that have always been with us and always have a deep connection to us
16:25And you always have to deal with us, we're not going to give you money anymore without